Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse
Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse

Author: John Rodden

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002-01-03

Total Pages: 551

ISBN-13: 0190283238

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This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990s. Rodden fully relates the GDR's attempt to create a new Marxist nation by means of educational reform, and looks not only at the changing institution of education but at something the Germans call Bildung--the formation of character and the cultivation of body and spirit. The sociology of nation-building is also addressed.

Religion and the Secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the Present
Religion and the Secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the Present

Author: Esther Peperkamp

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9004184678

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The most common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization. The volume attempts to discover historically variable reconfigurations of religion and the secular at the local level.

Investigating Education in Germany
Investigating Education in Germany

Author: David Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1317524381

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This book brings together the work of established researcher Professor David Phillips, in one authoritative volume. Including key chapters on education in Germany from the last three decades, topics range from historical studies of universities and schools, to detailed research on the role of the British in reconstructing education in Germany after 1945, and education in post-unification Germany. Together, the body of work draws from a multitude of primary sources and constitutes a comprehensive analysis of educational provision in Germany over a long historical period. In addition to 16 chapters spanning Phillips’ research from 1981 to 2012, the book includes a new introduction, bringing his ideas together and demonstrating their continuing relevance to the field. Investigating Education in Germany will be invaluable reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of international and comparative education, German studies, history of education and sociology.

East German Historians since Reunification
East German Historians since Reunification

Author: Axel Fair-Schulz

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2017-06-29

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1438465378

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Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany. With German reunification and the demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1990, East German historians and their traditions of historiography were removed from mainstream discourse in Germany and relegated to the periphery. By the mid-1990s, few GDR-trained historians remained in academia. These developments led to a greater degree of intellectual pluralism, yet marginalized many accomplished scholars. East German Historians since Reunification assesses what was gained and lost in the process of dissolving and remaking GDR institutions of historical scholarship. The collection combines primary and secondary sources: younger scholars offer analyses of East German historiography, while senior scholars who lived through the dismantling process provide firsthand accounts. Contributors address broad trends in scholarship as well as particular subfields and institutions. What unites them is a willingness to think critically about the achievements and shortcomings of GDR historiography, and its fate after German reunification.